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   The Holocaust (from the Greek ?????????? (holókauston): holos, "completely"   
   and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: ?????), Churben   
   (Yiddish: ?????), is the term generally used to describe the genocide of   
   approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a   
   program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National   
   Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi) regime in Germany led by Adolf   
   Hitler.[2]   
      
   Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Roma;   
   Soviets, particularly prisoners of war; Communists; ethnic Poles; other   
   Slavic people; the disabled; gay men; and political and religious   
   dissidents.[3][4] Many scholars do not include these groups in the   
   definition of the Holocaust, defining it as the genocide of the Jews,[5] or   
   what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Taking   
   into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the death toll rises   
   considerably: estimates generally place the total number of victims at nine   
   to 11 million.[6]   
      
   The persecution and genocide were accomplished in stages. Legislation to   
   remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of   
   World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were   
   used as slave labour until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the   
   Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units   
   called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass   
   shootings. Jews and Roma were crammed into ghettos before being transported   
   hundreds of miles by freight train to extermination camps where, if they   
   survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers.   
   Every arm of Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass   
   murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a   
   genocidal state."[7]   
      
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